After Xu Changfeng came back, he had a cold face, but no matter how Shen Jingting asked, he just pursed his lips and raised his eyebrows.
"Don't say it if you don't want to." Shen Jingting asked his servants to boil lotus root soup and gently persuaded him, "Drink a bowl of soup to lower your anger."
This man has always been soft rather than hard, so Shen Jingting asked his servants to hug him over. As soon as the powder-carved jade-bangle doll saw her father, she ran over joyfully, clamoring for his father's hug. Shen Jingting saw the sugar residue on his mouth that hadn't been wiped off, so he raised his sleeve and wiped it for him: "I'm greedy for candied fruit again, from now on, the third father really won't be able to hug you."
Huanhuan said: "Wuan'er is not afraid, it is the candied haws that my third father brought to buy." Then he tilted his head, looked at Xu Changfeng and said, "Who made father angry?"
Yuanyuan has been sensitive and sensible since she was a child, and when she noticed her father's uneasy expression, she said in a childlike voice, "Father is not angry, if he gets angry, there will be no one to accompany him to practice swords."
No matter how much anger Xu Changfeng had before, it has almost disappeared now. He said: "Okay, father is not angry, now I will practice sword with Yuan Yuan, do you remember what I learned before?"
"En." Xu Changfeng put the child down, and saw him nodding his head vigorously, and there was a smile on his serious face: "Then you go there first, and father will look for you later."
Huanhuan ran out obediently, Xu Changfeng looked at the back of the child, but let out a long sigh.
Seeing him like this, Shen Jingting had a faint guess in his heart, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the palm under the man's sleeve. Xu Changfeng said nothing, just quietly held the palm back.
But he said that the masters and masters of Xu's mansion all have their own thoughts, but there is one person who has been living quite smoothly in recent days.
The bright moon hangs high in the night sky, and the prince of Qi slowly returns to the Xu Mansion. He walked on the promenade, walking happily, humming a little song. When he got to the front of the guest room where he was staying, the prince waved his hands to the servants and said, "Go and rest quickly." The boy servant turned around, but the young man called out again, "Slow down, you guys come back."
He took out an oil bag from his pocket and distributed it to them: "I can't finish it all by myself, so you all take it back and eat it."
"Thank you, son." The servant continued with both hands.
Li Hong happily closed the door, but turned around to find that the room was on fire. He let out a "hey", walked over to have a look, saw that there was no one in the room, and was wondering in his heart, when Huo Di was suddenly slapped behind him. The young man turned his head in fright, and saw Xu Yingluo standing behind him, looking at him with a smile.
"Xu Yingluo, you are deliberately trying to scare me to death!"
Xu Yingluo smiled and sat down with Li Hong. Li Hong poured the tea and took a sip, patted his chest, and felt better.
Xu Yingluo said: "Tell me, Hong'er came back so late, and went to play with you to thank brother again?"
Li Hong met a man in the capital a while ago, he claimed to be Xie, he was a businessman, his ancestors had a little wealth, he was generous, and he took his son to play around in the capital every day.
"Brother Xie, why can't you speak human words well?" Even so, Shizi couldn't hide the smile on his face, "Brother Xie invited me to have a drink today. He seems to be in a depressed mood today, so I will accompany him Drink a little late."
"No wonder I smell all over my body, so I went to drink flower wine." Xu Yingluo covered her nose.
"Nonsense." The young man blushed, "Who, who is drinking flower wine, don't be bloody. Brother Xie is going to get married soon, how can you be such a nonsense person."
Alas, when it comes to getting married, why both of them are worried about this matter.
Xu Yingluo snorted softly: "Whoever said that you can't drink flower wine if you want to get married, aren't all of you men like this? Hmph, there's nothing good about all of them."
Li Hong scolded everyone after hearing her sentence, no matter how dull he was, he could feel something was wrong. He walked up to Xu Yingluo and sat down, bumped his arm against her: "Are you quarreling with your cousin again?"
Xu Yingluo faced the firelight, turned her eyes away and remained silent. Li Hong sighed: "Oh, why are you bothering?"
Even Li Hong could tell that the father and daughter clearly cared about each other, but strangely they always talked inconsequentially and bickered at every turn.
The boy asked: "So what exactly did you quarrel with your cousin?"
After hearing what Xu Yingluo said, Li Hong's eyes widened: "How dare you say such outrageous words?"
Xu Yingluo struggled for a moment, stood up upset and walked to the window: "What did I say wrong? Can't the son marry?"
Li Hong hurriedly chased after him, "hush" several times, then looked at Xu Yingluo with an unbelievable look, and murmured: "You still said that my cousin doesn't love you, if this sentence is left at my father's place , I was beaten to death long ago.”
Xu Yingluo glared at him and turned away to ignore him.
Li Hong scratched his face and sighed softly: "Although I don't know how you guys quarreled, you really shouldn't deliberately say such things to anger my cousin."
Hurting others a thousand, hurting oneself eight hundred, in the end, both of them feel uncomfortable. It is impossible for Xu Yingluo to be ignorant of such a simple and easy-to-understand truth, but as Xu Changfeng said, it is not that she does not understand her father's difficulties, but she also inevitably has resentment towards him in her heart. If this knot is not resolved, the relationship between their father and daughter will never return to its original state.
Seeing that Xu Yingluo didn't answer, Li Hong never knew how to coax others. After hesitating for a while, he walked over and asked in a low voice, "Cousin, is it possible... you really want to be the crown prince's side concubine?"
When Xu Yingluo heard this, she turned around. Shizi blinked, and his face was pinched unexpectedly: "Oh, it hurts..." As soon as Xu Yingluo let go, Shizi rubbed his face with wet eyes, stepped back a few steps and said, "Why are you pinching people so recklessly! "
But Xu Yingluo raised her face and smiled: "Silly Honghong, why don't I feel wronged by my sister and marry you, an idiot."
Li Hong turned pale with shock: "No!"
"—You! You stop for me!"
On the other side, Shen Jingting asked the servants in the young lady's yard about what happened that day. The master and the lady quarreled, and there was such a commotion that all the girls in the yard heard it.
"What did Miss say after that?" In the gazebo, the man put down his glass.
The servant girl lowered her head and said: "Later, Miss didn't say anything more, Master Hou was so angry that he slammed the door and went out. Miss didn't sleep well all night."
Thinking that Xu Changfeng tossed and turned all night, Shen Jingting couldn't help sighing: "It can be regarded as a father-daughter bond." He then ordered, "These words are not allowed to spread, I don't want to hear it from other people."
"yes."
Shen Jingting stood up and walked to the fence. He looked at the garden in full bloom, but he remembered the past in his heart. He had no doubt that what Xu Yingluo said was actually not malicious. A child was forced to be separated from his birth mother since he was a child, and no matter how good his father was, he had no time to take care of her. Everyone has their own fate. Compared with many people, Xu Yingluo's fate is already as good as it could be. She doesn't know that Xu Shiren is like this. He knows that the other party loves him, so he is more unscrupulous.
Just when I was worried, I heard all the servants call out: "Third Master."
Shen Jingting turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw a man in a crane cloak stepping on the ground, stepping forward slowly. In terms of appearance, everyone said that the second master was romantic, but the low-key third master of the Xu family was not inferior to his second brother in the slightest. Just look at his handsome appearance and outstanding temperament, he is indeed a handsome young man of Zhilan Yushu.
When Shen Jingting saw the person coming, he couldn't help but pursed his lips into a smile, and called out: "He Lang."
Just look at Xu Qihe's ruddy complexion, steady steps, and bright eyes: "So you are here."
Shen Jingting looked at him and said: "Today He Lang came back earlier than usual, but what's the good news?"
These years, Xu Qihe's health is getting better day by day, the doctors are all amazed, only the eminent monk of Xinglong Temple said that the third master has got rid of his obsession, and his body will naturally get better. Ever since Xu Qihe recovered from his illness, he has been restless. I know that the third master likes to build gardens and afforestation. Many people in Beijing have come to ask the third master to help repair the garden. The Summer Palace, which the emperor used to escape the summer, Inside is the hand of Xu Jiasanlangjing.
After the haze that had been suppressed in his heart for many years dissipated, Xu Qihe not only recovered, but also became much more cheerful than before. He took the man's hand: "Sanxi, follow me quickly."
Xu Qihe was in a hurry, not knowing what was going on, Shen Jingting followed him to the yard, and saw some workers carrying a big rock. Xu Qihe ran all the way to Nanshan earlier, so it was because of this stone. Shen Jingting curiously walked over to have a look, and saw that the stone was flat, with many large and small holes and cracks on it, he really couldn't figure out why Xu Qihe spent so much time for such an ugly stone.
"Sanxi don't underestimate it, I'll show you its difference." Xu Qihe ordered people to move the boulder to the bottom of the rockery, and when the flowing water hit the stone, he heard a clear and shallow sound, which was very pleasant. Shen Jingting was very surprised, so he heard Xu Qihe explain: "Look, there are holes in the middle of this stone, water flows through the holes, and the wind gets in and out through the cracks, which is the same principle as Xiaodi's. Such a sound stone, you must It can only be formed after hundreds of years of rapid water impact under the mountain waterfall, and the sound stone is fragile, so it is very rare."
After Shen Jingting heard this, he also felt admiration, and sighed, "It's Sanxi's eyes that are blind. It turns out that this boulder is such a rare thing."
The two held hands and went to see several things. They have been married since they were young, and they are still like a loving young couple. When they look at each other, there is a tender friendship flowing in their eyes.
Later, when the two walked in the yard, Xu Qihe was always careful, so he couldn't see that the people around him were worried, so he asked, "But because of Jun'er?"
Shen Jingting's steps faltered, and he said with a wry smile: "No matter what happens, I can't hide it from He Lang."
Xu Qihe smiled, and walked with his hands behind his back: "Jun'er is outspoken, and elder brother is not good at expressing his thoughts. I have already expected that there will be friction between them."
I thought Xu Qihe would give him some advice, but the man stopped under a peach blossom tree, took a branch and sniffed the flowers. The breeze was blowing, this scene was peaceful and beautiful, even Shen Jingting couldn't help watching it in a daze. Then, I heard Xu Qihe say: "The peach garden in Nanchun must be in bloom, why don't you take Jun'er and live together for a few days."